gingerphobia (uncountable) (UK, informal) Fear, dislike, or hatred of people with red hair.
Non-derogatory terms
According to the Associated Press Stylebook, "red-haired, redhead and redheaded are all acceptable for a person with red hair." Some people with red hair prefer the term auburn to describe their hair color.
Athena, the Goddess of wisdom and war strategy, and Aphrodite, the Goddess of beauty, love, and pleasure, were believed to be redheads.
Less than 2 percent of the world's population has red hair, making it the rarest hair color in the world. It's the result of the mutated MC1R gene. If both parents carry that gene, their child has a 25% chance of getting lovely, red locks, even if the parents don't have red hair themselves.
In Ancient Egypt, red-headed men were sacrificed at the grave of Osiris, supposedly to help fertilise the fields. In Greek mythology, all redheads became vampires upon death. In the medieval era, redheads were apparently children conceived during menstruation.
Rarest kind of redhead
Having red hair and blue eyes is the rarest hair/eye color combination possible. The odds of a person having both of those recessive traits is around 0.17%. Instead, most redheads have brown, hazel or green eyes, according to Medical Daily.
Having red hair isn't the only thing that makes some redheads unique. They are also more likely to be left handed. Both characteristics come from recessive genes, which like to come in pairs. Redheads probably won't go grey.
On the screen and on the street, strawberry blondes and those with auburn tresses attract attention, and always have. That is, in part, because red hair is an exotic trait, occurring in just one or two out of every 100 people.
Having natural red hair is rare (like, two percent of the population rare), so coming across someone with natural strawberry blonde hair isn't common. While you may not be a natural-born redhead, your colorist can help you achieve your ideal strawberry blonde shade at the salon.
One of the many facts about redheads is that their hair will never turn grey. The pigment in their hair that causes it to be red will just fade over time, causing their hair to turn blonde or white, but never grey.
In American media, red hair often symbolizes some of the same things the color red does. Some of the most common ones are a sense of feistiness and a form of sexualization and sensuality, which we see more often with redhead women.
Redheads are unlucky.
Ancient Egyptians actually considered redheads to be so unlucky that they offered them as sacrifices, hoping to end their streak of bad luck. On the other hand, the ancient Romans actually considered red hair to be lucky–in fact, redheaded slaves were the most sought after. Come on, everyone!
Bluey is an Australian nickname for a person with red hair.
Irish immigrants arriving in Australia looking for labour gained a reputation as heavy drinkers and fighters, with 'blue' being local slang for a fight. The term evolved to come to mean a redheaded Irishman.
8. Blue eyed redheads are super rare. Blue eyes and red hair forms the rarest combo on earth. Most (natural) redheads will have brown eyes, followed by hazel or green shades.
The rarest hair and eye color combination is red hair with blue eyes, occurring in less than 1% of the global population.
Red hair. Red hair ranges from light strawberry blond shades to titian, copper, and completely red. Red hair has the highest amounts of pheomelanin, around 67%, and usually low levels of eumelanin. At 1–2% of the west Eurasian population, it is the least common hair color in the world.
How Rare Is Dirty Blonde Hair? About 2 percent of the population are natural blondes, but it's a very popular hair color because many turn to hair dye to achieve it. Brighter blonde shades like ashy blonde and beige blonde are more popular choices than dirty blonde, so you can consider dirty blonde a bit more unique.
In Asia, red hair can be found among some peoples of Afghan, Arab, Iranian, East Indians, Mongolian, Turkic, Miao, and Hmong descent.
It's estimated that somewhere around 80% of redheads have freckles, but did you know we aren't born with them? That's right! Babies are not born with freckles, even if they will end up with them later in life. Freckles usually start appearing sometime between two and four.
6. People with red hair are more likely to be left-handed. Recessive traits often happen in pairs so commonly people with the gene for red hair also possess the trait for left-handedness.